Zara Family History
- Zara Name Meaning
- Italian: habitational name from the Italian name for the city of Zadar on the Dalmatian coast in former Yugoslavia. Italian: in Sicily, possibly from a variant of zagara, zagra, zaara ‘orange flower’, or, in Venezia, possibly a variant of Zadra. Spanish: probably a metronymic from the female personal name Sara, Zara (see Sara). Basque: topographic name from Basque zara ‘wood’, ‘thicket’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 14,698 Historical Documents with Zara on Ancestry
- 8,895 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,091 Census and Voter Lists
- 467 Military Records
- 1,338 Immigration Records
- 1,907 Member Trees
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Number of Zara families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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